The idea that an injury can't get worse, which coaches, trainers, and sometimes even players claim with infuriating regularity, is disingenuous bunk. Read more »
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The Myth Of The Injury That Can't Get Worse
NBA League Pass Games Of The Week (Jan. 13-Jan. 19)
The Pacers make multiple appearances on our highlighted League Pass games just as they're about to get Victor Oladipo back. Read more »
The NBA All-Star Vote's Peaking Absurdity
The All-Star Game once had a faint purpose, but that was before League Pass, and well before the omnipresence of social media. The goofy campaigns of Alex Caruso and Tacko Fall are attempts to make it mean something by turning it into a farce. Read more »
Streaming Mediums, Shifting Messages And The Tension Between The Tangible & Ephemeral
NBA tension today is of the existential variety. The medium by which we consume basketball has changed, and apparently, so too has the message. Read more »
NBA League Pass Games Of The Week (Dec. 30-Jan. 5)
The Magic and Pistons make multiple appearances on the non-national games of the week list. Read more »
The Existential Struggle Of Dion Waiters
Dion Waiters has always been a scoring bench guard who thinks he's a star. Those types are pretty abundant, and most of them don't have Dion's baggage. Read more »
NBA League Pass Games Of The Week (12/23-12/29)
Multiple appearances from the Heat and a rare 14-game night on Saturday during the holiday week. Read more »
Everything In The NBA Is Optimized Even When Nothing's Happening At All
Everybody involved in Andre Iguodala's suspended animation season is acting rationally and reasonably, but there a depressing valence to this. Read more »
Kyrie Irving Will Always Be His Often Wonderful, Sometimes Difficult Self
Kyrie Irving is more annoyance than malignancy, but he is a volume annoyer, impressed with his Wikipedian knowledge of philosophy and art while confusing personality defects with genius. Read more »
NBA League Pass Games Of The Week (12/16-12/22)
The Rockets make multiple appearances on this list with games against the Spurs and Suns. Read more »
Nikola Jokic Is Not For The Haters
Nikola Jokic's scenic route to virtuosity is the price, nay, the reward of seeing him every night. Only a truly insane person could be mad about load management and wag a finger about Jokic playing his way into shape at .25x speed. Read more »
The Real Possibility Kevin Love Might Be Stuck
It's been five-plus oddly frictionless years in Cleveland, where Kevin Love has not been a leader or standout performer. Fine and less than fine, are the points between which he's vacillated. Read more »
NBA League Pass Games Of The Week (12/9-12/15)
Nuggets/Thunder, 76ers/Nets and Mavs/Pistons in Mexico City highlight this week's non-national games. Read more »
The Sudden, Premature Breakout Of Luka Doncic
Luka Doncic's unfairness is myriad, but that is perhaps the most unfair thing about him. It's so early for him to be so great, and of course he doesn't seem to notice. Read more »
It's The Fleeting Stuff That You Need To Write Down
If, a decade from now, we curiously look back on this week in time, the record doesn't need to state that Luka Doncic was awesome. Carmelo Anthony temporarily channeling his younger self is more notable. Read more »
NBA League Pass Games Of The Week (12/2-12/9)
The Bucks make multiple appearances on this list, including a potential Finals preview against the Clippers. Read more »
The Ongoing Jim Boylen Experience
It's not wholly puzzling why Jim Boylen is like this, because literally millions of men roughly his age and background are like this, but it is something to behold engulf NBA arenas. Read more »
Nostalgia & Healing On The Court: Penny Hardaway & Juwan Howard Cross Generational Divide
Juwan Howard and Penny Hardaway each overcome nostalgia by stepping back into the living, growing, breathing ups and downs of the real world. They can even use the present to rewrite the past. Read more »
NBA League Pass Games of the Week (11/25 - 12/1)
With Thanksgiving this week, the NBA has an abbreviated schedule with our League Pass games headlined by multiple Mavs' games. Read more »
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